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Can someone explain why cocoa powder doesn't dissolve in cold milk or water? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.116.32.115 ( talk) 05:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Cocoa solids are not soluble in water based liquids. Neither the non-fat solids nor cocoa butter the fatty solid. Heat will melt the cocoa butter and allow the non-fat solids to more efficiently go into suspension in the liquid. Cocoa butter as it is a fat won't go into solution either. Chocoguy ( talk) 16:56, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The entry ended with this: "Accordingly, health professionals recommend consuming chocolate in forms that are high in cocoa solids while low in cocoa butter, such as hot cocoa." Well, some do and some do not: it depends. There is ample evidence suggesting that eating chocolate candy -- containing cocoa butter -- is also salubrious, and most of those are more recent than the 2003 article from Science Daily. One reference does not "health professionals" maketh. So I removed that misleading statement. Nicmart ( talk) 14:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
It should be noted that some definitions of cocoa solids include cocoa butter. Specifically, the percentage given on chocolate packaging (70% etc.) includes both the cocoa butter present in the beans used to make the chocolate and added cocoa butter. This is how you can get a 100% cocoa solids chocolate that has two ingredients listed (cocoa beans, cocoa butter). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.65.26.27 ( talk) 21:58, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
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This whole article contains massive gross errors and should be deleted and created anew. First of all Cocoa solids isn't the same as cocoa powder and by basically all regulatory rules in the US and through all of Europe, is defined as both cocoa powder and cocoa butter. This is one of the most poorly researched articles fulls of gross errors on Wikipedia. Articles like this full of false information are whats wrong with wikipedia. -- 98.208.19.245 ( talk) 08:22, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
The article describes different types of cocoa powder as having different pH values, but this doesn't really make sense because pH refers to the acidity of an aqueous solution (i.e. the pH depends on how much of the powder is dissolved in however much water).
Attys ( talk) 22:42, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
This claim needs a reference in the opening paragraph: "Cocoa butter is 46% to 57% of the weight of cocoa beans and gives chocolate its characteristic melting properties." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmusgrove ( talk • contribs) 06:12, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
cocoa powder redirects here, and the article in 2017 had text and info box about cocoa powder but that's been deleted but the redirect is still here. Are we to have a new cocoa powder or cover it here as well ? Is cocoa powder a type of cocoa solid(s) ? I have a tube of "cocoa" powder that has ingredients "cocoa powder, contains cocoa butter 20% minimum". - Rod57 ( talk) 03:15, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
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Can someone explain why cocoa powder doesn't dissolve in cold milk or water? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.116.32.115 ( talk) 05:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Cocoa solids are not soluble in water based liquids. Neither the non-fat solids nor cocoa butter the fatty solid. Heat will melt the cocoa butter and allow the non-fat solids to more efficiently go into suspension in the liquid. Cocoa butter as it is a fat won't go into solution either. Chocoguy ( talk) 16:56, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The entry ended with this: "Accordingly, health professionals recommend consuming chocolate in forms that are high in cocoa solids while low in cocoa butter, such as hot cocoa." Well, some do and some do not: it depends. There is ample evidence suggesting that eating chocolate candy -- containing cocoa butter -- is also salubrious, and most of those are more recent than the 2003 article from Science Daily. One reference does not "health professionals" maketh. So I removed that misleading statement. Nicmart ( talk) 14:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
It should be noted that some definitions of cocoa solids include cocoa butter. Specifically, the percentage given on chocolate packaging (70% etc.) includes both the cocoa butter present in the beans used to make the chocolate and added cocoa butter. This is how you can get a 100% cocoa solids chocolate that has two ingredients listed (cocoa beans, cocoa butter). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.65.26.27 ( talk) 21:58, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
References
This whole article contains massive gross errors and should be deleted and created anew. First of all Cocoa solids isn't the same as cocoa powder and by basically all regulatory rules in the US and through all of Europe, is defined as both cocoa powder and cocoa butter. This is one of the most poorly researched articles fulls of gross errors on Wikipedia. Articles like this full of false information are whats wrong with wikipedia. -- 98.208.19.245 ( talk) 08:22, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
The article describes different types of cocoa powder as having different pH values, but this doesn't really make sense because pH refers to the acidity of an aqueous solution (i.e. the pH depends on how much of the powder is dissolved in however much water).
Attys ( talk) 22:42, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
This claim needs a reference in the opening paragraph: "Cocoa butter is 46% to 57% of the weight of cocoa beans and gives chocolate its characteristic melting properties." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmusgrove ( talk • contribs) 06:12, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
cocoa powder redirects here, and the article in 2017 had text and info box about cocoa powder but that's been deleted but the redirect is still here. Are we to have a new cocoa powder or cover it here as well ? Is cocoa powder a type of cocoa solid(s) ? I have a tube of "cocoa" powder that has ingredients "cocoa powder, contains cocoa butter 20% minimum". - Rod57 ( talk) 03:15, 7 January 2019 (UTC)